KELLOGG PACT

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 73, 19 December 1928, Page 11

KELLOGG PACT

DELAYED RATIFICATION BY AMERICA DEMAND BY SENATORS FOR INTERPRETATIVE RESOLUTIONS (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) (Rec. December 18, 7.15 p.m.)' Washington, December 17. The Washington representative of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ of America has presented President Coolidge with a petition, bearing 180,000 names, expressing the hope that the Senate would promptly ratify the Kellogg Pact. The petition also requested that war be made a crime by specific provision of international law. In the meantime efforts were initiated to-day to get an agreement between the Kellogg Pact sponsors and the big navy men in the Senate whereby both measures would be considered concurrently. To-day a long debate on the Pact occurred in the Committee of Foreign Relations, and there is no prospect of an immediate vote. In committee several Senators, including Senator Reed, are understood to have insisted on the inclusion of interpretive resolutions. Senator Borah declared that he intended to hold daily sessions of the committee until a vote was taken to the chairman whether the Pact shall be reported as it stands or with interpretations. President Coolidge sent for Senator Shipstead to persuade him to abandon his support of the interpretive resolutions, but the Senator would not say what action he will take. Much of the discussion in committee to-day dealt with Sir Austen Chamberlain's note to Mr. Houghton expressing the understanding that the Pact would not deprive Britain of her rights of self-defence of her far-flung interests. ■' The question also arose whether a similar interpretation of the Pact for the United States made it necessary to accompany the American ratification of the Paet with a declaration of the Monroe Doctrine.